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Shire Leasing

British Business Bank programme: Investment Programme and our other commercial investments

Shire Leasing Plc (Shire) is the UK’s largest privately owned independent funding house specialising in small ticket leasing specifically for business critical equipment in the B2B market place. With over 25 years’ trading experience, Shire has earned its position as market leader by providing innovative solutions to financial problems for UK businesses with a focus on SMEs particularly.

Building long-standing relationships has been a key value for Shire which is manifest in long term relationships with investors, vendor partners and hirers alike. Its leasing portfolio now has over £73 million of receivables and this remains at the core of its strategy and allows Shire to continue to support British businesses in securing the finance they need to replace deteriorating assets and to expand generally.

Shire provides a full range of lease-orientated services, which allow UK SMEs to take control over their cash flow by acquiring assets through small, regular payments on a fixed interest basis. Now must be the best time to consider fixing these costs and enjoy the use of new technology in our growing economy.

Shire have trading relationships with hundreds of asset suppliers across the full spectrum of business assets – telecoms, IT, security, vending, refrigeration, photocopiers, vehicles, agriculture to name but a few. With over 66,000 UK SMEs as existing or past hirers and completing more than 540 deals each month, Shire is most capable in matching financial solutions to the unique nature of every business and prides itself on its customer centricity and satisfaction.

Find out more about how Shire works with the British Business Bank in the video below:

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British Business Bank plc is the holding company of the group operating under the trading name of British Business Bank. It is a development bank wholly owned by HM Government which is not authorised or regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) or the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The British Business Bank operates under its own trading name through a number of subsidiaries, one of which is authorised and regulated by the FCA. British Business Bank plc and its subsidiary entities are not banking institutions and do not operate as such. A complete legal structure chart for British Business Bank plc can be found on this website.